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Cards (87)

  • The narrator steps forward
  • two new pins
  • One I had a husband
  • He said my eyes were deep blue pools
  • He told me I was sexier than Marilyn Monroe
  • And we went dancing
  • Then of course I found I was 6 weeks overdue
  • It's a pretty house isn't it? It's a shame it's so big
  • I want to adopt
  • I can't stop having them
  • Oh you mean your superstitious?
  • We can just scrape by
  • I love the bones of every one of them
  • Give one of them to me
  • Each day I look out from this window
  • If my child was raised in a palace like this one
  • My child
  • Living on the never,never
  • Edward is my son. Mine
  • I'll tell someone... I'll tell the police
  • You won't tell anyone... if you do it will kill them
  • He's staring through your windows
  • He's creeping down the hall
  • I wish I was our Sammy
  • He's allowed to play with matches
  • But I had to stand on a crate
  • Gis a sweet
  • Are you soft?
  • Will you be my best friend?
  • I'm gonna get a real gun soon
  • 'Mummy' 'Mam'
  • (almost crying)
  • hits Edward hard and instinctively
  • realises how heavy she has been
  • I got y' I shot y'
  • The whole things just a game
  • Linda moves in to protect Mickey who is visibly shaken
  • I feel something terrible will happen
  • We hear a metallic ping
  • 'serious crime' 'prank'